mo | BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ July, 
heim, similar in habit, differs by slender serrate leaves, more 
scattered longer-peduncled flowers, 12-costate calyx with 
long-spreading nearly equal marginate lobes, straight narrow 
more deeply cleft corolla, its posterior lip entire with pro- 
duced angles, longer sterile stamens.—Pansamala, alt. 4,000 
feet, January, 1887. se ig et 2:) . 
Pitcairnia Tuerekheimii (§ Zupztcairnia Baker ).—Acaules- 
cent : basal bracts lanceolate,att t 
Verapaz, alt. 5,000 feet, July, 1887. (Ex PI. cit. 1298.) 
Nephrodium Tuerckheimii, ~ Bor. GAZETTE, Xil, 133-—Ex- 
planation of Plate XI: Fig. 1. Frond reduced. Fig. 2. Por 
tion of base of frond: nat. size. Fig. 3. Rootstock: nat. 
size. Fig. 4. Base of a lower pinna: nat. size. Fig. 5. +W° 
Segments of a pinna: enlarged. Fig. 6. Portion of a seg- 
ment: more enlarged. Fig. 7. Indusium: magnified. Fig. 
8. Scale from stipe: magnified. 
An apparently undescribed species from Costa Rica 8 
here added. It is numbered 176 of a small collection made 
by Sef. Juan J. Cooper, near Cartago, alt. 4,500 feet, De- 
cember, 188y. 
Zanthoxylum Costaricense.—Branches flexuose, armed with 
compressed recurved spines, glabrous, blotched with black 
eye in fruit ramified, an inch or more long, from poses 
a = flowers not seen: cocules 1-2, globose, glandula 
ese igs dehiscing to base, stipe and gynophore 
at ut half a line long: d ol _A shrub 10-15 feet 
high, known as « iiscucitic globose. s 
Baltimore, Ma. : 
